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"Bringing the Word to the World!"

People learn through their eyes... visually.  In the Scriptures God teaches visually.  How does God teach visually today?  Listen!  Think!  Be challenged!  

GO BIG! COMMANDED TO CRAVE

GO BIG!  Building Influential Generations!  In 1 Peter God commands us to CRAVE His Word!  How does that work?  How do we LEARN to Crave!  

THE BOOK: 1 Thessalonians -- "Messy Journey, Massive Encouragement!"

I invite you to come on a journey with me; with me and  the apostle Paul.  Let's slow down in our reading of the Bible and look more broadly at its content.  What you will see will surprise you, challenge you, inspire you, and reveal to you the awesomeness of God.  What you see will amaze you as to the significance of Paul's little letter to the Thessalonians.  So... pack up!  Let's get going!

THE BOOK: Colossians - "All Mixed Up!"

Pluralism and Syncretism are important words to understand.  Syncretism was the problem Paul confronted in his letter to the Colossians.  When Christians get "religious" they lower Christ and water down the message of the Gospel.  We can learn from this letter how to focus on Christ and keep the Gospel pure and powerful!

THE BOOK: Philippians -- "My Highlights Magazine"

In Paul's letter to the Philippians, he is in prison awaiting possible execution, while the Philippians are being persecuted.  The theme of the letter... wait for it... is JOY AND THANKSGIVING!  This message combines the topic of WAITING ON GOD, with the content of Philippians, to ask the question of professing believers... "WHAT DO YOU DO WHILE YOU WAIT?"  This is a unique, practical, and powerful look at this letter that could effect your life!

THE BOOK: Ephesians pt 2 -- "The Worthy Life!"

SEE THIS so that you can BE THIS!  SEE THIS in Ephesians 1-3, so that you can BE THIS in Ephesians 4-6!  The Worthy Life consists in so many beautiful things empowered and motivated by the Spirit of God!  And the will of God becomes the desire of the human heart!  Rather than the want of my unsatisfied flesh!  Put off... Put on... so that you can BE THIS!

FATHER'S DAY: "Play the Man!"

What is a good PROVIDER?  What does it mean to be a "provisionary man?" A provisionary person?  It means a whole lot!  Come and be inspired to see the true significance and influence of your life!  In a day and age where people search desperately for significance and come up empty, come drink and be satisfied, be challenged, be changed!  Be His!

THE BOOK: Ephesians pt 1 -- The Eternity of Things!

Do you ever get distracted by things that aren't that important?  And then when you step back and "LOOK" at it, you realize you are spinning your wheels?  Often we ignore the eternally true because we are all caught up with the temporally false.  Paul wrote to the Ephesians to encourage them to see all of life through the eyes of the Spirit of God that empowers them!  This is a great letter!  One of my favorites!  

The Influence of Giving! The Influence of Mom!

God is not, in essence, male.  Jesus said in John 4, "God is Spirit..."  God created both male and female in His image.  So the ideal qualities of "MOM" that we all know and honor; qualities of sacrificial giving and nurture and love; those qualities come from the character and nature of God.  God is a giver... and because this is true, Mom is a giver as well!  With this backdrop, why is it that so many of the most influential characters in the Bible were born to barren women?  What is God trying to say to all of us in these uniquely repetitive hardships that resulted in such influential people such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Samuel, and John the Baptist?

GRADUATION SUNDAY: "Life as it Should Be!"

Political correctness, relativism, narcissism... the world's philosophies and ideas come at us fast and furious.  They come not as suggestions, but as demands; "CONFORM OR ELSE!"  The consequences of these empty and vapid ideas are self-evident.  This is "Life as it is" in our world today.  But what is "Life as it should be?"  Is there a target, a goal, a purpose outside myself that makes life, both now and eternal, evident and transforming?  YES THERE IS!